Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made
8 best books like Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made (Alison Castle): A Doll's House, The Flame, The Birds and Other Stories, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, The Visit, Midnight Movies, The Stanley Kubrick Archives
| Author | Henrik Ibsen |
| ISBN | 1406914835 |
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle class marriage on the stage. The play ushered in a new social era and "exploded like a bomb into contemporary life".
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| Author | Leonard Cohen |
| ISBN | 0374156069 |
The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an unprecedentedly intimate...
The Birds and Other Stories
A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's dominance over the natural world. The mountain paradise of 'Monte Verità' promises immortality, but at...
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
| Author | Robert M. Sapolsky |
| ISBN | 1594205078 |
Why do we do the things we do?
More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful...
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0140437487 |
Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into ARTHUR GORDON PYM in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus....
| Author | Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
| ISBN | 0802130666 |
This is the first complete English translation of the play that many critics consider to be Durrenmatt's finest work. Unlike an earlier version adapted for the English-language stage, this translation adheres faithfully to the author's original play as it was published and performed in German.
The...
| Author | J. Hoberman |
| ISBN | 0306804336 |
These are a few of the over 100 films discussed in Midnight Movies, a comprehensive and in-depth look at the subculture movies of the past three decades. Here is the complete history of cult films, their makers, and their audience; an examination of how films become "midnight movies," and what keeps...
| Author | Christiane Kubrick |
| ISBN | 3822822841 |
The first book to explore Stanley Kubrick's archives is also the most comprehensive study of the filmmaker to date Part 1: The films In 1968, when Stanley Kubrick was asked to comment on the metaphysical significance of 2001: A Space Odyssey, he replied: ?It's not a message I ever intended to convey in...
